The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

 

Often success comes down to decisions, travelling roads that have not been trodden before and taking “risks” without knowing what the outcome will be.

Today, I give you a poem that I first learned at the age of 19 and it has stayed with me since, as I see it as a metaphor for what success can be in our lives.

Jorge

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 

And sorry I could not travel both 

And be one traveller, long I stood 

And looked down one as far as I could 

To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the better claim, 

Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 

Though as for that the passing there 

Had worn them really about the same, 

And both that morning equally lay 

In leaves no step had trodden black. 

Oh, I kept the first for another day! 

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 

I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— 

I took the one less travelled by, 

And that has made all the difference.